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Ripping new stl band. Ballsy punk with a hc edge. Bugman’s delight. Risographed sleeves + a double sided lyric sheet. Cover drawn by MOLLY STEIN, Bugman’s 15 year old sister.
Our take: Debut record from this new band out of St. Louis, but if you blindfolded me (actually, Im not really sure why you would have to blindfold me, but I guess thats how these sayings go) and told me this was from New York I would have no trouble believing it, except perhaps for the fact that its recorded much better than a lot of the Toxic State-type stuff that it sounds like. The band that Fried E.M. sound the most like is Crazy Spirit, though theyre a hair faster, they dont tend to hang on riffs in that Krautrock-y way that CS do, and theyre more apt to reach for whiplash, hardcore-style changes and transitions. I think theres also something of Kaleidoscopes somewhat more ambitious, more psychedelic take on this sound here or at the very least if you dig what Kaleidoscope are doing I think youd probably like Fried E.M. too. Now that the New Yorkers seem to have abandoned this sound, its time for the cretins of the countrys less trafficked areas like the midwest and the south to take up the torch and march this sound into its most twisted and contorted depths. I must say Im looking forward to that journey.
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